You could say the same thing about search engines back in the mid-90s, before Google's PageRank.
I couldn't agree more however the ramifications of inaccurate or misleading results are minimal - to the user if not Google's bottom line. What is at issue here is collating a resource from disparate sources, including vastly different formats, which would enable relevant agencies to better sort the wheat from the chaff. Having been part of a team aiming to standardise similar data sets to provide a search resource I speak from experience when I say this is no simple undertaking. Slashdot has recently posted an article on the difficulties of trawling datasets with tools which inevitably produce false positives, and the ramifications on false positives for the people in question are onerous to say the least. And this is without factoring in the liklihood that no more personnel will be available to follow up flagged content (people) so the net result is either an unused collection of positives or an accross the board policy change to haul in outliers under the pretense that they have been highlighted by 'powerful new technology'.
When will people realise than having more data often makes it more difficult to find the needle in the haystack. I am all up for utilising raw power in distributed networks to gain insights into patterns previously hidden but given the sheer breadth of proposed data formats to be mined this effort seems doomed to producing no tangible results at all. Except the ongoing expenditure of tax dollars.
Spot on, I always read the source, not only of the FOSS apps I love but also of the accompanying license. In fact my days have 63 hours in them! Also if I skip reading the license I wrote a license parser in Python which repeats any subliminal messages backwards on a timed loop. But only when I'm listening to Madonna.
Well a quick scan of revenues on Wikipedia puts the named corporations' annual revenues last year at over USD24 Billion. Small change to you no doubt but probably enough to bend an ear or two in Washington DC.
Absolutely! I'm not html guru but surely it shouldn't take a company with Adobe's technical knowhow to update an "a href" tag . . . in fact, come to think of it, I would do it myself for a small fee . . .
Indeed, unfortunately my cat, Oscar, simply wants to eat and is now as fat as a soccer ball. Call me cruel but when he's just sitting there looking petulant the temptation is often too much . . .
Self domesticated!? Surely by definition domestication is an externally enforced process, one in which the powerful enforces/trains a useful/preferable mode of behavior over the weak. To Self-domesticate would simply mean to evolve, to have certain traits preserved due to their being conducive to cohabitation with humans.
However if I already have an iPhone it is a useful feature nicely outlined in the article. Although as pointed out by another poster the dude bought the iPhone specifically for the purpose which even he seems to regret come the end of the piece. So the moral of this story is RTFA or learn to mind-meld with blog authors at a distance . . . only one of which requires me to rescind my slashdot membership
Still the survey's numbers look good, but don't really make a lot of sense because of the way they're presented. What's more, users with negative opinions are far more likely to take such a survey than those who simply have no strong opinion one way or the other. So that market is largely unknown.
So basically you're saying: "Statistics are good but unless they agree with my point of view I'm going to dismiss them." Rock on!
This is all a little academic because the issue is much narrower than that discussed here. It is related to placing ads on pages after a particular search term has been used. E.g. I search for Rosetta Stone Software and a competitor has bought the ad rights to that term and thus their advertisement is placed on the search results page. They need not reference Rosetta Stone software in their ad at all, either for disparagement, comparison or subtefuge. Whether this should be legal or not is far from clear, perhaps if there is a risk of misidentifying the company placing the ad then the trademark holder should at least be given the option to buy rights to the search term at market rates . . . but I guess this opens up a whole administrative nightmare for google so I can understand them just taking the cash from the first person who wants to pay for a particular term . . .
I do not like the idea of an ISP having the right to terminate services because they don't like the amount of download that I may be doing.
Luckily that's not what was being proposed. ISP's are the good guys here, they tend to fight against **IAA (or their International equivilant) lobbied legislative changes if only to avoid the hassle and cost of becoming the internet's policemen. It is also worth noting that ANY law which requires court time is likely to be quickly changed if there are too many people cited because ultimately the public is not interested in putting alleged copyright infringers behind bars whereas they do want to see violent criminals brought to justice - arguing that there is not enough court time to try Mr Serial Rapist because we are too busy trying Miss Downloaded Britney isn't going to cut it.
The whole point of the exercise is that it is not just theoretically possible it is actually being done on the ground. Handing out iPhones to folk in the bush isn't gonna happen soon whereas this experiment is up and running and not only providing a useful resource to those outside the technical revolution but also providing an insight into their concerns and interests . . .
And it still won't solve the other requirement, which is making it useful to people who can't read
or the electricity or the cooling or the reliability or the wtf is this or the pr0n over narrowband frustrations which inevitably will follow. I see this innovation as a good idea and the final sentence is the clincher for me - it is interesting to see what they search for - how our species has diverged through the random inequalities of resource provision . . .
Prince Charles wants to return to the land of his forefathers where the Royal Family was held in high esteem and he could withdraw to his country estate to shoot deer and poachers for fun. The fact this his idyllic picture of yesteryear coincides with a currently fashionable environmental movement shouldn't fool you into supporting him. He's prat, if he had more power he would be a dangerous prat.
Slashdot Mirror
You could say the same thing about search engines back in the mid-90s, before Google's PageRank.
I couldn't agree more however the ramifications of inaccurate or misleading results are minimal - to the user if not Google's bottom line. What is at issue here is collating a resource from disparate sources, including vastly different formats, which would enable relevant agencies to better sort the wheat from the chaff. Having been part of a team aiming to standardise similar data sets to provide a search resource I speak from experience when I say this is no simple undertaking. Slashdot has recently posted an article on the difficulties of trawling datasets with tools which inevitably produce false positives, and the ramifications on false positives for the people in question are onerous to say the least. And this is without factoring in the liklihood that no more personnel will be available to follow up flagged content (people) so the net result is either an unused collection of positives or an accross the board policy change to haul in outliers under the pretense that they have been highlighted by 'powerful new technology'.
When will people realise than having more data often makes it more difficult to find the needle in the haystack. I am all up for utilising raw power in distributed networks to gain insights into patterns previously hidden but given the sheer breadth of proposed data formats to be mined this effort seems doomed to producing no tangible results at all. Except the ongoing expenditure of tax dollars.
err so your step 2 of the three step is really 'Profit':
1) Stuff
2) Profit
3) Profit!
Genius
Someone should really check out the source
Spot on, I always read the source, not only of the FOSS apps I love but also of the accompanying license. In fact my days have 63 hours in them! Also if I skip reading the license I wrote a license parser in Python which repeats any subliminal messages backwards on a timed loop. But only when I'm listening to Madonna.
Why don't they speak out against the bigoted extremist representatives then?
The same reason huge swathes of the U.S. population didn't speak out against the bigotted extremist representing them between 2000 and 2008.
Only they won't have any money . . .
Well a quick scan of revenues on Wikipedia puts the named corporations' annual revenues last year at over USD24 Billion. Small change to you no doubt but probably enough to bend an ear or two in Washington DC.
I suppose you use yours for phone calls . . youngsters today . . . [sigh]
. . . whilst fanboys scratch their heads trying to find an upside to burnt nostrils . . .
Why are Adobe offering the old versions?
Absolutely! I'm not html guru but surely it shouldn't take a company with Adobe's technical knowhow to update an "a href" tag . . . in fact, come to think of it, I would do it myself for a small fee . . .
why not set a device like that to send an amplified return?
What, and make the bats DEAF!? Are you mad? I for one recommend turning off the wind as soon as bats are in range, that'll sort 'em!
Scotland was not a part of England at the time.
nor, as it happens, was Freedom! Where as now we're as free as pigs in shit!
This will end very badly for him.
Yes because here in the UK we always punish our criminally inclined police . . .
A cat does what it wants, when it wants.
Indeed, unfortunately my cat, Oscar, simply wants to eat and is now as fat as a soccer ball. Call me cruel but when he's just sitting there looking petulant the temptation is often too much . . .
When XP support ends in 2014. By then, Win7 will have been shaken out.
I love that optimism man, I guess you one of the guys that still vote for politicians on the basis of the promises they give!
Self domesticated!? Surely by definition domestication is an externally enforced process, one in which the powerful enforces/trains a useful/preferable mode of behavior over the weak. To Self-domesticate would simply mean to evolve, to have certain traits preserved due to their being conducive to cohabitation with humans.
No expensive iPhone needed.
However if I already have an iPhone it is a useful feature nicely outlined in the article. Although as pointed out by another poster the dude bought the iPhone specifically for the purpose which even he seems to regret come the end of the piece. So the moral of this story is RTFA or learn to mind-meld with blog authors at a distance . . . only one of which requires me to rescind my slashdot membership
Isn't the whole point of the article about current users utilising existing features in new and innovative ways. i.e. with a marginal cost of zero.
Still the survey's numbers look good, but don't really make a lot of sense because of the way they're presented. What's more, users with negative opinions are far more likely to take such a survey than those who simply have no strong opinion one way or the other. So that market is largely unknown.
So basically you're saying: "Statistics are good but unless they agree with my point of view I'm going to dismiss them." Rock on!
This is all a little academic because the issue is much narrower than that discussed here. It is related to placing ads on pages after a particular search term has been used. E.g. I search for Rosetta Stone Software and a competitor has bought the ad rights to that term and thus their advertisement is placed on the search results page. They need not reference Rosetta Stone software in their ad at all, either for disparagement, comparison or subtefuge. Whether this should be legal or not is far from clear, perhaps if there is a risk of misidentifying the company placing the ad then the trademark holder should at least be given the option to buy rights to the search term at market rates . . . but I guess this opens up a whole administrative nightmare for google so I can understand them just taking the cash from the first person who wants to pay for a particular term . . .
Vacuum cleaner? Speak for yourself! My vacuum cleaner hose doubles as a microphone and a more melodic password obfuscator has rarely been heard!
I do not like the idea of an ISP having the right to terminate services because they don't like the amount of download that I may be doing.
Luckily that's not what was being proposed. ISP's are the good guys here, they tend to fight against **IAA (or their International equivilant) lobbied legislative changes if only to avoid the hassle and cost of becoming the internet's policemen. It is also worth noting that ANY law which requires court time is likely to be quickly changed if there are too many people cited because ultimately the public is not interested in putting alleged copyright infringers behind bars whereas they do want to see violent criminals brought to justice - arguing that there is not enough court time to try Mr Serial Rapist because we are too busy trying Miss Downloaded Britney isn't going to cut it.
Trois grèves indeed!
which is one of the reasons why I purposely get my password wrong, constatnly. Hold on who is this siloko person!?
but I'm just saying it is theoretically possible.
The whole point of the exercise is that it is not just theoretically possible it is actually being done on the ground. Handing out iPhones to folk in the bush isn't gonna happen soon whereas this experiment is up and running and not only providing a useful resource to those outside the technical revolution but also providing an insight into their concerns and interests . . .
And it still won't solve the other requirement, which is making it useful to people who can't read
or the electricity or the cooling or the reliability or the wtf is this or the pr0n over narrowband frustrations which inevitably will follow. I see this innovation as a good idea and the final sentence is the clincher for me - it is interesting to see what they search for - how our species has diverged through the random inequalities of resource provision . . .
Prince Charles has started a petition
Prince Charles wants to return to the land of his forefathers where the Royal Family was held in high esteem and he could withdraw to his country estate to shoot deer and poachers for fun. The fact this his idyllic picture of yesteryear coincides with a currently fashionable environmental movement shouldn't fool you into supporting him. He's prat, if he had more power he would be a dangerous prat.